Cercetări arheologice preventive în zona Baloteşti (jud. Ilfov
Preventive archaeological researches in Baloteşti area (Ilfov county)

Summary/Abstract: A series of preliminary cvidences conceming the archaeological sites along the banks of the Cociovalişte valley wcre indicated in the · 80s and '90s throughout a series of field-walkings in the area. Yet, during the last decade, the residential development in the areas north to Bucharest impacted such vestiges, only in few cases being possible to undertake a preventive research prior to the construction works. This study provides an insight upon a preliminary analysis of landscape archaeology in the Baloteşti area, as well as presents the results of the archaeological excavations conducted on a plot of land, situated on the right bank of the Cociovalişte valley. Significantly damaged by subsequent agricultural works and other human activities, the archaeological contexts investigated in here provided a rather large quantity of fragmentary pottery, dated to the 2"d-I ' 1 c. AD, certain vessels having analogies on other Late Latene sites from the south-eastem part ofnowadays Romania.

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